May Day this year at the Peace and Social Justice Center

Each year, members of the Peace and Social Justice Center, in Wichita, Kansas, put on a May Day event. This year it will start at 5:30pm with a pot-luck dinner. It will be held at the P and SJ Center, 1407 N. Topeka (1 block E of E 13th N and Broadway).

The P and SJ Center has a lot of progressive members who are interested in labor issues, democratic socialism or just interested in the history of May Day, the international workers holiday. This year Peace Center activist Bill Anderson who joined a Witness for Peace delegation to Honduras in January. They focused on looking into the causes of migration, especially of women and children out of Honduras seeking refuge in the U.S. He will speak on his experiences in Honduras.

Also speaking will be Janice Bradley was part of a delegation of 150 people joining CODEPINK co-founders to Cuba to mark the thawing of relations between the U.S. and Cuba in February. The group attended high-level meetings with government officials, talked with doctors who battled Ebola in Africa, visited organic farm cooperatives, health clinics, artists’ and musicians’ studios and talked with local people about cultural, economic, environmental and health issues.

The presentations will begin at 6:45.